Kids on strike!
Reading Level-Grade 4
Reading Level-Grade 5
Child labor
Children, united states
Strikes and lockouts
Reading Level-Grade 6
Child welfare
United states, social conditions
Reading Level-Grade 7
United states, history
Reading Level-Grade 8
Labor unions
United States
Juvenile literature
History
Describes the conditions and treatment that drove workers, including many children, to various strikes, from the mill workers strikes in 1828 and 1836 and the coal strikes at the turn of the century to the work of Mother Jones on behalf of child workers. By the early 1900s, nearly two million chi…
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